Descriptive Summary
Scope and Content of Collection
Biography
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Descriptive Summary
Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Dennis Phillips Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0223
Physical Description:
16 Linear feet
(40 archives boxes, 1 map case folder)
Physical Description:
95.7 GB
of digital files
Date (inclusive): 1970-2008
Abstract: Papers of Dennis Phillips, Los Angeles poet, novelist and professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Dennis Phillips, Los Angeles poet, novelist and professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, California. Phillips was
L.A. Weekly's first poetry editor, a founding editor of
Littoral Books, the book review editor for the literary magazine
Sulfur and he co-edited the poetry section of
New Review of Literature. Phillips's papers contain manuscripts and typescript drafts of his published and unpublished poetry, as well as typescript
drafts of a small body of unpublished (or privately published) prose works, plays, and screenplays. The collection also includes
two correspondence series.
Accession Processed in 1993
Arranged in two series: 1) WRITINGS and 2) CORRESPONDENCE.
Accession Processed in 1999
Consists primarily of annotated drafts of Phillips's writings, correspondence (1972-1998) and notebooks (1990-1995). Arranged
in three series: 3) CORRESPONDENCE, 4) WRITINGS and 5) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL.
Accession Processed in 2019
Annotated drafts of Phillips's first novel
Hope, in both paper and digital formats. The material consists of one series: 6) WRITINGS -
HOPE.
Biography
Dennis Phillips was born in 1951. In 1973 Phillips earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, graduating from the California
Institute of the Arts. In 1974 he moved to New York City, where he undertook a year of study in the Graduate Classics Department
at New York University. From 1979 to 1980, Phillips taught literature and writing with the Humanities Department at Otis Parsons
Art Institute, and at the same time assumed responsibilities as poetry editor at
L.A. Weekly. His experience there as editor led to becoming the book review editor at the literary magazine
Sulfur. From April 1985 until July 1988, Phillips served as Director and President of Beyond Baroque, the new writing collective
located in Venice, California.
Phillips has authored over a dozen books of poetry, including
Frontier (1980),
The Hero is Nothing (1985),
A World (1989),
Means (1991),
Arena (1991),
20 Questions (1992) and most recently,
Measures (2013). Additionally, his work has also appeared in several poetry journals, and his first novel,
Hope, was published in 2007 by Green Integer Books.
Phillips currently holds the position of senior instructor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences at the Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, California where he has been teaching since 1979.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Dennis Phillips Papers, MSS 223. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1992, 1998, 2018.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American poetry -- 20th century
Phillips, Dennis -- Archives
Allen, Donald, 1912-2004 -- Correspondence
Andrews, Bruce, 1948- -- Correspondence
Benson, Steve, 1949- -- Correspondence
Butterick, George F. -- Correspondence
Corbett, William, 1942- -- Correspondence
Eshleman, Clayton -- Correspondence
Fraser, Kathleen, 1935- -- Correspondence
Guest, Barbara -- Correspondence
Howe, Fanny -- Correspondence
Howe, Susan, 1937- -- Correspondence
Mackey, Nathaniel, 1947- -- Correspondence
Messerli, Douglas, 1947- -- Correspondence
Morrow, Bradford, 1951- -- Correspondence
Palmer, Michael, 1943- -- Correspondence
Ross, Joe, 1960- -- Correspondence
Scalapino, Leslie -- Correspondence
Silliman, Ronald, 1946- -- Correspondence
Wakoski, Diane -- Correspondence
Waldrop, Rosmarie -- Correspondence
DiPalma, Ray -- Correspondence
Harryman, Carla -- Correspondence